01 Connect the expertise
Risk Advisory
Bring your firm’s expertise together around the client’s decision.
Connect specialist research, organisational knowledge and AI-assisted analysis in a workbench shaped around your advisory practice.
Discuss your advisory workflowIllustrative engagement
A cross-border energy acquisition.
A new government raises questions about ownership, licences and the local partner. What changes the terms on which your client could proceed?
One investment.
02 Test the interpretation
Your analyst asks
the decisive question.
Analyst annotation“Establish whether the proposal applies to existing assets.”
AI assists comparison. Your specialists direct the inquiry.
Supporting evidence · Conflicting evidence · Open questions
03 Develop client options
Client briefing · analyst reviewed
Clear options.
Conditions attached.
- 01 Proceed
- 02 Seek safeguards
- 03 Stage commitment
- 04 Defer
Each connected to findings, assumptions and unresolved questions.
Your analysts own the assessment. Your client owns the investment decision.
Keep the advice current
When the picture changes,
revisit the reasoning.
- DevelopmentOwnership proposal revised
- Affected assessmentApplication to the target
- Human actionAnalyst reviews the client briefing
Read the engagement in detail
Engagement overview
Connect the risk assessment
to the investment decision.
A cross-border energy acquisition: bring specialist findings into a shared case, test what they mean for this asset and explain the client’s options.
At a glance
Three issues that could change the advice
- Ownership reform: distinguish passage of the proposal from its application to the target.
- Operating licences: establish whether they survive a change of control.
- Partner dependence: separate repeated allegations from independent corroboration.
01 / The mandate
Frame the investment question.
An investment firm is considering acquiring an overseas energy business. The commercial opportunity is attractive, but a change in government has raised questions about foreign ownership, operating licences and the target’s dependence on a politically connected local partner.
The client needs to understand whether these developments threaten the investment’s viability, could change its terms, or can be managed through safeguards.
02 / Relevant expertise
Bring the findings into a shared case.
Country specialists, investigators and sector analysts each hold part of the picture. Their findings sit across reports, source material and previous engagements.
Your team brings relevant findings alongside the client’s investment assumptions. AI helps locate connections and conflicting accounts, while your analysts judge their relevance, credibility and implications for the transaction.
- Country research
- Could the ownership reform affect this asset?
- Sector expertise
- Will its licences survive a change of control?
- Partner findings
- How dependent is the business on political relationships?
03 / Analysis
Test the interpretations that matter.
The announcement could signal a lasting policy shift, a negotiating position or a narrower intervention affecting particular businesses. Your team develops these explanations side by side, linking supporting and conflicting evidence to each.
AI helps surface overlooked questions and assumptions; specialists challenge the interpretations and direct further inquiries. Repeated allegations remain distinguishable from independent corroboration. Uncertainty about passage of the reform remains separate from uncertainty about its application to the target.
Analyst annotation“Establish whether the proposal applies to existing assets.”
04 / Client implications
Compare the conditions for proceeding.
The workbench keeps each option connected to relevant findings, assumptions and unresolved questions. Your analysts develop the briefing; reviewers examine the basis for a judgement and record where they disagree.
The client receives a clear assessment of its exposure, the conditions attached to each option and the developments that could warrant reconsideration.
Reviewer annotation“Which assumptions would change our advice if they proved wrong?”
05 / Review
Revisit the conclusions affected by change.
A revised policy proposal or a new finding about the partner may affect only part of the assessment. The workbench helps your team identify the conclusions that depend on that information and revisit their reasoning.
Your analysts determine whether further investigation, revised advice or an immediate client update is needed.
Make specialist expertise easier to apply across engagements.
Bring disciplines together, preserve the reasoning behind client advice and build on relevant prior research.